Gustavo Schroeder

“We must put aside all commonplaces as to the responsibility of the aggressor.… Success alone justifies war.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

“War, he stated, “is a biological necessity”; it is the carrying out among humankind of “the natural law, upon which all the laws of Nature rest, the law of the struggle for existence.” Nations, he said, must progress or decay; “there can be no standing still,” and Germany must choose “world power or downfall.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August